From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:20:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87io1xwq1e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87vb5wvzfz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87io1wt4cc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737syoima.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871t8iu277.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s28kvh.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3gis7sm.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83twle71xy.fsf@gnu.org> <87io1us0te.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pow26svf.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8n5srbp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s17npz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oablfpn3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834mdd6llx.fsf@gnu.org> <7fbb8bc7-9a97-4bad-a103-a6690a35241d@default> <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455870066 4674 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 08:21:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 09:20:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgJ7-0006nd-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:20:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgJ6-0005Nn-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgJ2-0005MA-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:20:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgIy-00075p-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:20:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgIx-00075l-TF; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2665 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aWgIw-0000PV-K8; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:20:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:11:41 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200185 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:11:41 +1100 > > Here's my vote: I think character folding is a good idea, and that it > should be turned on by default if it respects the locale. If not, it > should be off by default. Thanks. But what does "respect the locale" mean, in practical terms? A large portion of the characters that have some decomposition, and thus will be folded when searching, belong to scripts that are not related to any language or other locale-specific attribute. What do you think should be done with them in the context of this feature?